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A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially spoken dialogue. The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as film itself, but because of the technical challenges involved, synchronized dialogue was only made possible in the late 1920s with the introduction of the vitaphone system. After The Jazz Singer in 1927, "talkies" became more and more commonplace and ten years later silent films essentially disappeared. The silent film era is... full article at wikipedia
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Created by Metaweb Oct 22, 2006
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